Paddy Ashdown - High Representative For Bosnia and Herzegovina

High Representative For Bosnia and Herzegovina

After leaving British politics, he took up the post of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina on 27 May 2002, reflecting his long-time advocacy of international intervention in that region. He succeeded Wolfgang Petritsch in the position created under the Dayton Agreement. He is sometimes denigrated as "the Viceroy of Bosnia" by critics of his work as High Representative.

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